Anzaldúa Reading Response

Summary

In her article, "Tlilli, Tlapalli:  The Path of the Red and Black Ink," Anzaldúa discusses culture and readings. She mostly talks about herself throughout the reading. She is a feminist. She uses a lot of examples; all of them are personal stories of hers. She also relates these stories to culture. This article is meant for readers interested in culture and feminism points of view.

Synthesis

This article relates to Flynn. Flynn talks a lot about feminism. It relates because Anzaldúa is a feminist.

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Thoughts

I both liked and disliked this article. I liked it because I am also a feminist; I want equal rights. I also liked it because I am interested in culture. I think it is fun to put yourself in another culture. She did that with her readings. I disliked this article because it was mostly stories.

Cixous Reading Response

Definitions

Whiteness:

Dictionary site-

white-ness

noun

1. the quality or state of being white. 

2. paleness.

3. purity.

4. a white substance.

Other site:

"What is going to happen as the ozone layer gets thinner and thinner and thinner and people are subjected to more and more radiation?" she asked. "Will white people stay white?"

"Malcolm X talked about the ‘white man,' " she said, adding that "Malcolm X helped create the idea of one single white race."

Marginalized:

Dictionary site- 

mar-gin-al-ize

verb (used with object), mar·gin·al·ized, mar·gin·al·iz·ing.

to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.

Other site:

She explained that it means not being accepted by the central part of a social group.

Heteortypical:

Dictionary site-

het-er-o-typ-ic

adjective, Biology .

of or pertaining to the first or reductional division in meiosis.

Other site:

a term pertaining to the binding of two structures to each other. Heterotypic interactions are those involving binding between dissimilar structures.

Works Cited

Cypher, Allen. "Marginalized." Marginalized. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://acypher.com              /marginalized.html>.

Godnick, Max. "Princeton Prof. Asks: What Is Whiteness?" The Brown Daily Herald. N.p., 9 Mar. 2010. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://www.browndailyherald.com/princeton-prof-asks-what-is-whiteness-1.2184712>.

"Heterotypic." (Cytokines & Cells Encyclopedia. N.p., 21 June 2011. Web. 26 Nov. 2012.

<http://www.copewithcytokines.de/cope.cgi?key=heterotypic>.

"Heterotypical." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heterotypical?s=t>.

"Marginalized." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marginalized?s=t>.

"Whiteness." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, 2012. Web. 26 Nov. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whiteness?s=t>.

Response

      My definition of whiteness is a persons color, being white. I know it was made up, and I know that society, the world, puts meaning behind it. I'm not totally sure what marginalized is. I think of a group of people being marginalized. Maybe in the world people that are not white are marginalized. I have no idea what heterotypical. Everything I found on it had to deal with biology. I think maybe it has to do with hetero marriage in the world?? 

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Alexander Reading Response

Synthesis

Alexander's article, "Transgender Rhetorics:  (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body," relates to Malinowitz, Wardle, Gee, Swales, Baron, and McCloud. It relates to Malinowitz because both articles talk about acceptance in the LGBT community. Both articles also talk about the struggles. It relates to Wardle because of identity, acceptance, and belonging are main points in both articles. It relates to Gee because it talks about the individual and conflicting discourse communities. It relates to Swales because he talks about acceptance. Baron also talks of acceptance along with social influence and progression. It relates to McCloud's mask idea.

DN

Thoughts

I really liked this article. I like all of the articles about awareness. I also did not know very much about the transgender community, so the article was interesting to me. The videos I watched online taught me a lot also.

Video

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pezZk3LlxOM&feature=relmfu

Smitherman Reading Response

Before You Read

3. Yes, I have judged someone from the way they spoke before I saw them. I have judged people's voice/speaking on the words they used, if they had a accent, and if they sounded like a stereotype (ex. like a hillbilly, thug, prep, etc.).

Summary 

In her article, 'God Don't Never Change': Black English from a Black Perspective," she describes how Black English is taught to students. She then describes how it should be taught. She uses examples to further explain. Her main point is dialect and how it varies. This needs to be taught to students, so she is writing to teachers, or students that have not been taught this. 

Synthesis

This article relates to Wardle, Baron, and hooks. It relates to Wardle because they both talk about identity ans acceptance. It relates to Baron because they relate with history, acceptance, and progression. It lastly relates to hooks because they both talk about race and ethnicity.

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Question

QD 7. There is a problem with this because the underdog will be overshadowed. We still need to know about the underdog. It is important too, even if it doesn't have much power. 

Thoughts

I thought this article was a little weird. I don't really think students need to be taught Black English. I do think dialect is very important to be taught. Maybe Black English could be used as an example for learning dialect, but I would never teach a whole section on it in an English class. I do like her prospective though.

Project #3 Progress Report

     Where I am at in my project is the same as I turned it in for peer review. I have read my review and talked to the person who reviewed my project. I made bullet points while talking to him on the phone. The bullet points are everything I need to add in my project. I need to add me. Everywhere! I am going to revise my introduction, my section titles "Me in the Discourse Community," and I am going to add personal examples throughout the "Swales" section. I plan on finishing my paper by Monday.

Flynn Reading Response

Before You Read

1. There hasn't really been any gender differences in the classroom. The teacher has not treated us differently. There was one class where she had the males sit on one side and the girls sit on the other. It was for a reason though, not because one was superior.

Summary

In Flynn's article, "Composing as a Women," she explains the differences of men and women's writing and language. She even shows differences with relationships. She shows examples of different gender students papers. She explains the differences between them. She is writing to teachers because teachers need to know these things while teaching and grading.

Synthesis

Flynn's article relates to Wardle, Wysocki, and Milanowitz. It relates to Wardle because the articles have identity, language, and belonging in common. The article relates to Wysocki's because they both have to do with women and societies influence. It relates to Milanowitz because gay people and women both went/are going through problem's with acceptance in society.

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Response	Quotation
I agree with this, we look up to people to find our identity.	“Girls’ identification processes, then, are more continuously embedded in and mediated by their ongoing relationship with their mother” (158).
Girls usually have good dreams like this and they enjoy things like this.	“A perfect day for a long drive on a country road with my friends” (159).
To teach students, you have to understand the way they learn.	“Students, I have found, are avid inquirers into their own language processes” 162).
Women can not only read one way, they must have prospective.	“We must alert our women students to the dangers of immasculation and provide them with a critical perspective” (164).

Question

QD 3. She is saying that women have surpassed a lot. And that difference is erased to universalize so that everyone is equal. It relates because sometimes African American's (and other minority groups) are treated the same as women were/are.

Thoughts

I thought this article could have had more to it. Women gender problems is an ongoing process. It has had major effects on our lives and is still changing. I feel like she could have put more history behind the differences of men and women's writing, language, relationships, and identity.

Villanueva Reading Response

Before you Read

4. Villanueva: 

"Victor Villanueva has won two national awards for Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color, written nearly 40 articles, and delivered over 35 keynote and featured addresses. A Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican high school dropout, Villanueva entered community college after the military and eventually went on to receive his PhD in English from the University of Washington. At Washington State University, he has worked as an Equal Opportunity Program Director, Director of Composition, and English Department Chair. He is a former chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communications. Villanueva's research concerns the interconnectedness among rhetoric, ideology, racism, and literacy practices." 

-http://www.du.edu/writing/documents/VillanuevaApril12Lecture1.pdf

He sounds like a well educated, Puerto Rican man that is trying to spread the word of 'rhetoric, ideology, racism, and literacy practices.'

Summary

 His article, "Memoria is a Friend of Ours:  On the Discourse of Color," is about the discourse communities made by different racial/ethnicity groups. He takes parts of his own book and relates them to the topic of color. He explains that people of color are discriminated against in many different ways. This may be a reason they make communities. He uses other author's works to compare. He is writing to people of color, people learning about color, people learning about rhetoric, and people learning about discourse communities. 

Synthesis

 This article relates to Wardle, bell hooks, and Heilker and Yergeau. It relates to Wardle because being discriminated because of your color is not belonging and your color is your identity and Wardle talks about belonging and identity. It relates to bell hooks because it also had to do with race/ethnicity. It lastly relates to Heilker and Yergeau because the both talk about rhetoric in discourse communities that are discriminated.

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Question

 AE 3.I think the assimilation myth is that citizens don't think foreigners can be assimilated and be in touch with their ethnicity and culture. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is like knowing your heritage at least a little and it being in your life no matter what. Your pulling yourself up into a better place with your ethnicity still being there. It has to do with assimilation because you can still assimilate, but no matter what you are always going to have your background and use it somewhat in your life. Also some may say assimilating is better for you so it is like pulling yourself up. On Google I got the bootstraps is an American myth and I got stories about it. It relates to Villanueva idea because they are both myths.

Thoughts

 I thought this article was kind of boring. I can not relate much because I am primarily always around my own race, so I am not discriminated because of it. I also do not have anyone in my personal life that is of color. I thought the reading could have had some kind of visual, not just excerpts from himself and other authors. I do think Villanueva had a good point to this article, he could have just explained it better. 

 

Project #3 Progress Report

     My topic for project #3 is the discourse community of music education. I am currently writing my paper. I have the synthesis almost finished. I have synthesized with the authors from our readings and the authors I have researched on ArticlesPlus. I plan to synthesize my interviewers. I also plan to add more authors and interviewers to my synthesis. I have 14 interview questions made and I have interviewed one person. I plan to interview at least 5 more people. I have a picture/diagram to put in my paper from my research on ArticlesPlus. I think my project #3 is going pretty well except I need to get my word count up! 

Interview Questions

Interview Questions

1.    Did you have music education in the schools you attended before college/work force? What grades? 

2.    If yes, what music education classes did you take?

3.    If you did take classes, how did the music classes help you? If you didn’t take classes, do you think music education would have helped you in any aspect?

4.    What kind of goals do you think are set in primary education (Before High School) music classes? If yes, what goals?

5.    What kind of goals do you think are set in secondary education (High School) music classes?  If yes, what goals?

6.    What kind of language change do you think there is from primary to secondary music classes?

7.    If you are in college, are you taking any music classes there? 

8.    If you are taking college music classes, how are those classes different than primary and secondary school classes?

9.    If you are taking college music classes, why are you taking them?

10. Is there a common goal for everyone that is taking those college classes?

11. Is there a language change from primary or secondary school classes to college music classes?

12. Is there any type of intercommunication in your college music classes?

13. At any grade music class do you think there are members? If yes, what grades?

14. At any grade music class do you think there is feedback? If yes, what grades? If yes, what kind of feedback?